Progress in Heavy-Ion Physics

The present goal of heavy-ion physics is to investigate the structure of exotic nuclei far from stability line, properties of nuclear matter under extreme conditions of high and low densities as a function of excitation energy, extract information about the nuclear equation of states, and learn about possible phase transformations such as liquid-gas transition and quark-gluon formation. Heavy-ion collisions provide the only tool for these investigation. The topics in the summer school will cover various aspects of nuclear structure, fusion, nuclear dynamics at low, intermediate and high energy heavy-ion collisions. A number of lectures will be presented on nuclear models, giant resonances in exotic nuclei and astrophysics, reaction mechanisms with exotic beams, the mean-field and beyond the mean field approaches of nuclear structure and dynamics. Also lectures will be presented on covariant density functional theory for nuclear dynamics, on transport coefficients in quark-gluon plasma and on dynamics of strongly interacting many fermion systems.

Summer School will take place at Feza Gürsey Institute which is located on the Asian part of Istanbul. Grants are available for students wishing to attend the Summer School. The grant will cover accomodation including breakfast, lunch and dinner during the Summer School. It will also be possible to provide travel support for the graduate students.